Mario Gooden

[3][4][5] Huff + Gooden Architects work has been exhibited at the 11th Venice Biennale in 2006, the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi), the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, and the Municipal Arts Society in New York.

Gooden's work, writings, and lectures have discussed architecture and the translation of cultural landscapes defined by the parameters of race, class, gender, and technology.

In chapter seven, "Disjunctures and Alternatives, 1985 to the Present" Wright states: "Significant architecture helps us confront contentious topics.

Huff + Gooden, an African-American firm based in Charleston, South Carolina, have designed a small museum for the Virginia Key Beach Park (2005–8) that underscores the ambiguities of racial pride and segregation….

This new sensibility in American modern architecture encourages visitors to contemplate multiple dimensions of the past and the future, buildings and their surroundings.

His article "_ORM is a Four-Letter Word…" which examines avant-gardist's art practices and the relationships to architectural production and the de-emphasis of form, is published in Perspecta No.